To find a journal, magazine, or newspaper article in the most popular databases in your subject area, enter your search term(s) and choose a subject from the pull-down menu. To view a complete list of indexes and databases available at Rutgers, click on View all databases. For more information see "How Do I Find an Article?"

To find books and more in the Library Catalog, enter your term(s) and select a search type in the pull-down menu. For more information see "How Do I Find a Book?"

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To find a print or electronic journal in the Rutgers collections, enter its title or keywords in the title and select the appropriate search type in the pull-down menu. For more information, see "How Do I Find a Journal?"

Search for journals, magazines and newspapers

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To find a list of books, textbooks, and electronic articles placed on course reserve by your instructor, enter your instructor's last name and search. You can also use the pull-down menu to search by course title or number.

Viewing and listening facilities

Viewing and listening facilities in the Media Center provide small rooms for groups and individual workstations where media is distributed by wire. A group viewing room holding 10 people is available for booking. Workstations requiring headphones provide course reserve viewing for small numbers of students in the Alexander and Kilmer libraries.

Circulation

Most DVDs circulate to faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates for 7 days. Videocassettes and DVDs committed to instructional use circulate to faculty, staff, and graduate students for 3 days when not booked or on reserve. CDs, audio cassettes, discs, and tapes circulate to faculty, staff, and graduate students for 14 days; CDs also circulate to undergraduates for 3 days. All borrowers must be current Rutgers faculty, staff or students. Guest and alumni borrowers are not eligible to borrow audio and visual items.

Media Bookings

Media Reserves

Faculty may place on reserve videotapes and DVDs from the collection as well as their own personal copies for
use by students in their scheduled classes. To place materials on reserve fill out the
Media Center Reserve Request Form.

Swank Digital Campus

Swank Digital Campus provides online streaming access to feature films for instructional use. The Libraries will arrange to make available titles that instructors designate required viewing for students in any course. Once leased, titles may be used in other courses for the duration of the lease without additional charge. Contact and details for taking advantage of this the service are here.

Media Clips for Reserve

The Libraries provide a ‘clipping’ service for instructors, which can be utilized to create files for streaming online as reserves or to create a compilation DVD to be used in a classroom. Customized access to portions of audio and video works facilitates lectures and creates focused reserves material for students. It also provides online access to work otherwise only available in physical media.

The amount clipped should be reasonable and appropriate for the educational purpose, in accordance with fair use. The original material clipped must be lawfully acquired. Because capturing and converting materials into digital files takes time, instructors should place requests as far in advance as possible. Details describing the sections of works needed-- timings, chapter numbers, and other visual cues – are necessary.

Use the Streaming Media Clips Service Request Form to request streaming media clips for Reserves on all campuses (Camden, New Brunswick, and Newark). Instructors and their students access the files with their NetIDs.

Streaming audio and visual files will be listed along with books, electronic files, and other reserve materials on your reserve course list in the Library Catalog. You can create a link from your Sakai course management page to library course reserves; see How to Link Your Library Reserves to Sakai.

For clips to be placed on a DVD, instructors on the Camden and New Brunswick campuses should contact mediaser@rci.rutgers.edu, at the Media Center, Douglass Library. Instructors on the Newark campus should contact Mark Pappiani, papianni@andromeda.rutgers.edu, at Media and Digital Library Services, Dana Library.

If you would like assistance with locating media titles or filling out the request form, please contact the Media Center in New Brunswick via email: mediaser@rci.rutgers.edu or Tel: 848-932-5034

Video Collections

The Media Center video collection includes 10,000 videotapes, 6,000 DVDs, 150 laserdiscs, and 1,100 16mm films.
Materials have been selected to meet teaching and resource needs of all Rutgers schools, departments, and
programs. New moving image materials are ordered regularly, and faculty users are invited to make recommendations
for purchase by the contacting
Jane Sloan, Media Librarian
(jsloan@rulmail.rutgers.edu).
Materials not owned by the
libraries may also be requested for purchase via the
Booking or
Reserves forms.